Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-26
LOCAL BREyITIEs,
Drive down the spikes.

OiiFt uOhH tDe spikes.
The rails of the Highland Park road have
been laid as far as L street.
Who is to be the next State Librarian. is
worrying local politicians.
The Governor has appointed Monroe
Jackson, of San Diego, Notary Public.
Harry Dam denies that he ever engaged
IN pardon brokerage. Somebody has told
a Dam lie.
Two bootblacks on Fourth street cele-
brated Thanksgiving by having fight, in
which one was badly injured.
The Placer Republican, referring to a re-
cent libel suit, has this epigram: THE CITY
Of Refuge was full of men who were VIC
| tori ous."
4 roomer at the Mansion House yester-
day morning set fire TO the mosquito-bar
over his bed, and in consequence was con-
siderably singed.
Rev. Grinda1l Reynolds, of Boston, Mass,
General Secretary of the American Uni
tartan Association, will speak in Pioneer
Hall tomorrow at IL A. NJ.
a nine from the RECORD UNION office
sent challenge to the Bee ball-tossers
about three weeks ago and have as yet re-
ceived no answer. What's the matter?
Rev. w. c. Merrill will, tomorrow even
ng at the Congregational Church. deliver
one of his popular Bible lectures subject
Lots Wife; the Penalty of Looking
Back"
In the case of the People VS.. T. J. Dun
can, charged with obtaining money under
false pretenses, the jury disagreed. They
were out five hours, and stood most of the
time six to six.
Thanksgiving evening some petty thief,
dnrInp tho ON. rtai,, NJ n
Hall, entered the ante-room, stole a Iady's
fur cloak and despoiled several hats of
their ornaments.
A ten-foot fence is being constructed
around the vacant lot at Seventh and X
streets. 1t will effectually hide this eve
sore from view. The fence will be used for
advertising purposes.
Parties who maintain trap-doors in side
walks should be made TO have the hinges
placed flush with the surface A majority
OF the trap-doors in the sidewalks have
hinges that project an inch above the level
OF the walk.
Officer Sullivan has become a father TO
the fatherless. He has a bright little boy
at the station-house, eleven years of age,
whose parents are both dead, and Mr. Sui
Ivan would like to have him adopted INTO
good family.
The police have some facts that tend to
show that certain individuals had planned
to murder young man in this city for
small amount of money. All the parties
connected with the affair are we'll known,
and move in good society.
man named S. w. Reynolds was ar
rested Thursday on suspicion of having set
fire to the barn of E. NJ Leitch. Reynolds
had been in Leitch's employ and was dis
charged on the day of the fire. He stated
that he knew nothing about the fire. He
was discharged from custody last evening,
there not being sufficient evidence to war
rant his being charged with the crime.
A school-teacher yesterday suggested that
the candidates for School Director be ex-
amlned In reading, writing and arithmetic.
Let the Third Reader be the standard, in
that line, decimal fractions and the rule of
three in mathematics, and in writing to be
able to copy the Lords Prayer intelligiblv,
and use punctuation and capital letters
properly. She says nine-tenths of the can
dldates she has heard spoken OF would not
be able 10 pass examination in the seventh
grade, and the school-marms don't want
to be ruled over by an uneducated Board.
The average Signal Service temperature
yesterday was 440, being 40 cooler tina IN the
normal for that day. The highest and low
to brisk northerly winds and clear weather.
Yesterday morning was the fifth time in
eleven years that the temperature in No.
vember fell to the freezing point or below
in 1880, 27o; 1881, 800 1888, 800; 1885,
800, and yesterday, 1887, 800 November,
1880, was cold month; there were nine
days on which the thermometer fell below
800, and no rain fell until the last two days
in November.